It is strange how things don’t change in these shanty towns or squatter camps or informal settlements or whatever you choose to call them. - Zakes Mda

Bhonco is different from the other Unbelievers in his family, for Unbelievers are reputed to be such somber people that they do not believe even in those things that can bring happiness to their lives. They spend most of their time moaning about past injustices and bleeding for the world that would have been had the folly of belief not seized the nation a century and a half ago and spun it around until it was in a woozy stupor that is felt to this day.”

Funerals were held only on Saturday and Sunday mornings those days, because death was not as prevalent then as it is at present.

The villagers will actually lose more than they will gain from the few jobs that will be created. Very little of the money that is made here will circulate in the village.